A Gift and an Obligation – Geneva College students learn that community transformation is a long-term process
Geneva’s emphasis on service is not unique. Thanks in part to college students’ increased interest in social projects, both secular and Christian colleges have outreach programs to their surrounding communities. Students work in schools, serve meals at homeless shelters, help clean up urban neighborhoods and build houses for struggling families During a recent after-school program... Continue Reading
Eat Less Chikin? – Chick-fil-A is facing opposition on several college campuses over its support for Christian organizations
Last week, the student senate at Northeastern University, in Boston, voted to end negotiations to bring fast-food chain Chick-fil-A to campus after students protested over the company’s affiliation with several Christian organizations the students say have an “anti-gay” agenda. The Atlanta-based company, dogged for months by accusations of homophobia, insists it is “not anti-anybody” but... Continue Reading
Cost-Effective Compassion: The 10 Most Popular Strategies for Helping the Poor; Economists rate impact
Over the course of U.S. history, an ethic of transparency about organizational performance has taken hold in private industry, the legal and medical professions, and, most recently, on account of public demand, the financial sector. It is time for this level of transparency and accountability to take root in the aid industry, and it will... Continue Reading
Gospel Coalition Panel: Churches Called to Lay Down Youth Culture Idolatry in Worship
“It’s possible to preach a Gospel-centered message, and yet undermine it with the songs you sing and even with the things you do in the church. I think it’s one of those difficulties we face in working in this sort of postmodern context is dots don’t connect like they use to.” –Kevin Twitt, Indellible Grace... Continue Reading
The Missing Factor in Higher Education – How Christian universities are unique, and how they can stay that way.
Finally, professors should articulate what it means to place Christ and their Christian identity first in life. Students, who are learning to prioritize and combine their own multiple identities and loyalties, surely profit from such wise counsel. Professors can constantly remind students that they are more than students. Their grades do not constitute their worth... Continue Reading
Forty-Year-Old Light on How to Translate “Son of God” for Muslims
“John [the Apostle] wanted to make sure that when he wrote of Jesus as the Son of God he would not be understood” in those wrong ways. He wanted “to make it clear from the outset that the Sonship which Jesus claimed . . . was precisely a matter of personal deity and nothing less.”... Continue Reading
Lawsuit Claims University Ordered Christian Club to Allow Non-Christian Leaders
The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders and members, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. “The university has given itself the authority to determine whether a group is religious or not,” said Jeremy Tedesco, an attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund. Tedesco filed suit on behalf... Continue Reading
Dial A For Murder – ‘Assassins’ roaming the grounds at Covenant College
Mac Council Representative and former player Molly Kitts advised players to find some friends who are willing to be bodyguards. Kitts also warned players against leaving their rooms without the assassin’s contract and a water gun. Not even the Great Hall is safe anymore. High-speed chases across campus with water guns drawn and jumpy students... Continue Reading
New Testament Scholar Daniel Wallace on the Gospel of Mark discovery, and other Biblical papyri with it
…in the last 135 years when we’ve been discovering New Testament papyri, there’s not a single place where any manuscript discovery of the last 135 years has introduced new wording to a passage that was not found in any other manuscripts before, that now scholars say this is authentic. (Editor’s Note: Hugh Hewitt holds degrees... Continue Reading
2012 Reformed Congregational Fellowship Pastors’ Conference
Pastors! The Reformed Congregational Fellowship will be hosting its Twelfth Annual RCF Pastors’ Conference on April 17-19 at the Wonderland Conference Center, 10 Capen Hill Road in Sharon, MA. Have you ever been asked something along these lines: “Pastor, am I saved? I thought I was, but now I’m not so sure . . .”?... Continue Reading
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